The “SEC East really sucks” meme is approaching critical mass. Bill Connelly thinks the likely mismatch in the SECCG is grounds for blowing up conference divisional play altogether (eh,what does a Missouri carpetbagger* know about the SEC, anyway?).

* That’s a joke, son.

Also, I think Andy Staples is setting up the case to blame Georgia if the Dawgs manage to beat Auburn tomorrow and set in motion a chain of events that leads to Boom making an appearance in the championship game as the result of a multi-team 4-4 divisional logjam. And you didn’t believe Kirby Smart would have a major impact on the East in his maiden season.

Most of the crazier scenario’s involve Tennessee losing a minimum of 2/3 to UK, Vandy, & Mizzou, some involve them losing all three. While that’s unlikely, I guess it’s possible.

But that’s not where I’m heading. I can’t help but think a 5 loss UT team is the cause that introduces the effect of seeing Booch exit stage left. I don’t want that. I want him hanging around due to his overratedness.

The East basically dominated the SECCG until the latter 2000s. FU won it most of the time with Georgia winning 2 times and UT a time or two. LSU under Saban and Auburn under Tuberville are the only 2 SEC West teams I remember winning the SECCG until Saban arrived in Tuscaloosa.

’92: West
’93: East
’94: East
’95: East
’96: East
’97: East
’98: East
’99: West
’00: East
’01 West
’02: East
’03: West
’04: West
’05: East
’06: East
’07: West
’08: East
’09: West
’10: West
’11: West
’12: West
’13: West
’14: West
’15: West

In defense of the recent East, the only truly mediocre team to make the title game during the West’s 7-year streak was South Carolina in ’10. You could maybe argue that Georgia in 2011 and Florida in 2015 were mediocre, but they were both 10-2. This year, obviously, is a different story.

That Georgia team in 2011 wasn’t mediocre. We lost to what was a top 5 Boise State team, gave away the USCe game with turnovers and special teams, got hammered by the best team in the country in the SECCG, and played not to lose vs. Michigan State. It was a pretty solid team …

Everyone looks at that final score and thinks it wasn’t competitive but we dominated the first half, shutting their offense totally while we dropped 2 TD passes, 11 offensive yards I believe is all they managed. They had a questionable ST score just before the half to wake them up, Murray fumbled deep in our territory on the 2nd half opening drive, and they scored a garbage TD at the end when we went for it on 4th down around our own 20 when everyone would have normally punted it away.

Don’t get me wrong, LSU was the better team but I have never seen an LSU crowd that quiet in any stadium in America, we were very competitive in that game. But folks look at the headline and don’t read the story.

I was at the game. Yes, if they catch those passes, it may have given them enough momentum to get the upset. But they didn’t, and LSU did whatever they wanted in the second half while shutting Georgia down completely. It wasn’t competitive at all after halftime.

The decision to admit Missouri and to put them in the East was absolutely stupid. Then again, looking back on it, the league probably shouldn’t have admitted TAMU either. All of this was a Mike $live panic attack about the B1G going to 14.

Sad commentary that even The Senator has to explain his jokes in print lest a viral meme get started.

Like many I don’t gas* who wins the East, Bama will crush them all. But recent history isn’t a reason to make wholesale changes. Plus, as has been noted many times, they only care about the money anyway.